Facebook Inc., operator of the largest social network with more than 1 billion members, is working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe a malware attack, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Facebook, as part of its monitoring efforts, flagged a suspicious domain in its corporate logs and tracked it back to an employee computer. After examining the laptop, the company found a malicious file and then uncovered several other compromised laptops after a companywide search.

By first hacking a mobile developer’s site, the attackers had ensured that they would infect the computers of engineers working for several companies, said Anup Ghosh, founder of Invincea Inc, a security firm based in Fairfax, Virginia.

“There is a range of developers that might visit that site and they would infect them all,” Ghosh said of the attack.

The malicious software bypassed built-in protections to install malware. Facebook immediately reported the exploit to Oracle Corp., which owns the Java software that was compromised. Oracle provided a patch Feb. 1 to address the vulnerability.

Plus: Outrage-tweeting is a dangerous thing, and why we have to teach students not to be "trust misers."

There’s not an option to not trust anyone, at least not an option that is socially viable. And societies without trust come to bad ends. Students are various, of course, but what I find with many students is they are trust misers — they don’t want to spend their trust anywhere, and they think many things are equally untrustworthy. And somehow they have been trained to think this makes them smarter than the average bear.

The Kremlin's hacking misdirection is evolving. And even when those attempts to confuse forensics fail, they still succeed at sowing future doubt.

Stéphane Koch's insight:

The "False Flag" strategy do not belong to a single country... Russia is not, from far, the only country using it. Today, it's one the foreign policy tool used by several countries in the way to influence one country's perception, diplomatie, or to make the country's opinion to support political decisions...

The Right to be Forgotten trial has heard arguments on whether a man who gave interviews to national newspapers about his criminal past should be able to have those reports, among others, deleted from Google Search.

“The claimant in this case is a businessman who more than a decade ago pleaded guilty to an offence of conspiracy to intercept communications in a business context,” his barrister, Hugh Tomlinson QC of Matrix Chambers, told London’s High Court yesterday morning, adding that his client “was sentenced to a short term of imprisonment”.

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